The Challenge of Change - Managing Excipients Control
Colorcon
20-Sep-2010 - The US FTC has given a positive advisory opinion to Rx-360’s shared audits and said the programme appears to offer “cognisable cost-saving and safety enhancing features”.
15-Sep-2010 - Pall has ended fiscal 2010 with strong set of sales after recovering pharmaceutical industry demand for bioproduction tech maintained its momentum in Q4
14-Sep-2010 - DSM has confirmed that three workers were killed at the weekend after an industrial accident at its food and pharmaceutical ingredient plant in southern Italy.
13-Sep-2010 - Scientists say counterfeit drug and ingredient detection using NQR could benefit both manufacturers and pharmacies.
13-Sep-2010 - KV Pharmaceutical is to return its first product to the market following a successful inspection of its facilities by the FDA.
07-Sep-2010 - Extension of a production site in Shanghai is a small part of the big aspirations Thermo has for China and Asia Pacific.
07-Sep-2010 - DSM Pharma Chemicals, a business unit of DSM Pharmaceutical Products, has announced the launch of InnoSyn route scouting services, meeting pharma needs to outsource process development R&D.
07-Sep-2010 - Drugmakers may soon have a soon be able to identify fake pharmaceuticals using a new technique based on principals originally developed to detect explosives
02-Sep-2010 - US formulation services provider Bend Research has received a new patent for the process of producing spray-dried solid amorphous dispersions of drugs using single-fluid pressure nozzles.
01-Sep-2010 - Prosonix has launched a co-crytsallisation service for the production of APIs for inhalable drugs and oral medicines.
31-Aug-2010 - SK Chemicals hopes Xcellerex’ manufacturing technology will boost vaccine production business.
26-Aug-2010 - Electronic batch recording (EBR) capabilities have been added to version 2.1 of FactoryTalk Pharma Suite by Rockwell Automation.
26-Aug-2010 - Mtech Bioprocess is to double scale-up square footage and staff to support Maryland, US biotechs’ non-GMP production work.
24-Aug-2010 - Proposed changes to USP chapters 232 and 233 on trace impurities would increase drug industry use of automated analysis, creating “huge number” of potential new customers says Thermo Fisher Scientific.
23-Aug-2010 - Mettler Toledo’s new in-line granulation monitoring tech may make in-process particle characterisation less of a grind.
19-Aug-2010 - Allied Vision Technologies (AVT) says new imaging machine offers “100 per cent inspection” capability to help drugmakers meet quality rules.
18-Aug-2010 - CardioGenics predicts yield boosting “biologics beads” will change the antibody extraction landscape after signing distribution deal with Merck Chimie.
17-Aug-2010 - Bioprocess purification chromatography tech wins BAC new deal after Swiss protein maker Octapharma licenses it for commercial-scale manufacture.
16-Aug-2010 - The EMA and FDA are seeking pharma manufacturers to participate in a joint GMP (good manufacturing practice) inspection pilot programme.
05-Aug-2010 - Cel-Sci’s recently opened “Cold fill” facility has passed its first manufacturing test by completing filling of a batch of the candidate head and neck cancer drug Multikine for a late-stage trial.
04-Aug-2010 - A bill to strengthen drug safety requirements and FDA powers has been introduced into the US congress.
02-Aug-2010 - Heinkel expands pharmaceutical filtering and drying systems business with acquisition of Italian equipment maker Comber.
29-Jul-2010 - ATMI completes expansion at US bioprocess tech plant days after citing life science business growth as an important part of its second quarter gains.
28-Jul-2010 - Cellexus has expanded its disposable bioreactor offering with a unit designed to give biomanufacturers greater flexibility in their choice of cell lines.
28-Jul-2010 - US testing instrument maker Mocon has moved to a bigger HQ and manufacturing centre to help it keep up with what it describes as growing demand for its range of products and services.